For that last sentence alone I almost felt a need to give a big sloppy kiss to you. Rather shrewd.

Seriously though. I will freely admit, that this is something I've been guilty of as well on occasion when I was still relatively new to the MUD. The gaming experience at Carrion Fields is immersive, stimulating and thus addictive and will invariably keep drawing you back in. However sometimes you will run into certain aspects of the game that will mostly either frustrate, or simply rub you the wrong way for one reason or another. For example, to this day I still find the experience penalties of a mobdeath to be genuine character killers when I'm confronted with them repeatedly under the same character. You begin to percieve these things as being something that detracts from the fun you have and that they could certainly stand some further customizing in 'the right direction' to further better the game's design as a whole, and you begin to develop a need to openly advocate all of this. With some people, that need can apparantly be rather strong. The irony is that this is a common phenomenon among players, especially those that have just begun to work their way out of the 'newbie' stage, and thus actually seems to be part of becoming a member of this lovely little community. Consider it the thorns on the rose of having many others participate in this ongoing project.

The footstomping is something I grew out of for a large part over time when it finally began to sink in that suggestions are almost always given consideration even if they're not actually taken and mixed in. As a result I no longer make these issues I have with certain aspects of the game publically known on a whim. Obviously that doesn't mean that I don't quietly hope that further customizing is in the works for them, however.

Eh. I've truly been rambling for no reason.